Italy: Uffizi boss proposes street food tax in Italy’s art cities
Florence: The head of Italy's Uffizi Gallery, Eike Schmidt, has suggested taxing street food vendors in Italy's art cities -...
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Italy: Rome stages Shakespeare festival at Globe Theatre in Villa Borghese
Rome: Rome’s annual Shakespearean festival at the city's Globe Theatre in the heart of Villa Borghese returns for its 18th...
Italy launches digital covid-19 certificate
Rome: Italy's premier Mario Draghi has signed a new decree launching the national digital green certificate website for people who...
Italy plans to change travel vaccine certificate requirements
Rome: Italy is likely to alter the regulations for its health pass during the next upcoming weeks, Deputy Health Minister...
Italy passes 50 million covid vaccination milestone
Rome: Italy is set to pass the milestone of 50 million covid vaccinations administered on Monday 28 June, the...
Italy: Rome celebrates its patron saints Peter and Paul with public holiday
Rome: Rome celebrates its patron saints, Peter and Paul, with a public holiday in the Italian capital on Tuesday 29...
Italy drops outdoor mask rule as entire country now covid-19 ‘white zone’
Rome: Wearing masks outdoors in Italy is longer required with the entire country now in the lowest-risk 'white zone' category...
Italy: Rome’s Domus Aurea reopens with homage to Raphael
Rome's Domus Aurea, containing the majestic remains of Emperor Nero's golden palace, has reopened to visitors after an extended closure...
Italy’s restaurant sector cautiously optimistic as things improve
Rome: As coronavirus health restrictions have been dramatically eased in recent months and tourists are starting to come back to...
Italy: Colosseum underground labyrinth opens fully to visitors
Rome: The underground heart of Rome’s Colosseum, a labyrinth of passageways and chambers called the hypogeum, has opened to the...
Italy: All country to be covid-19 ‘white zone’
Rome: All of Italy will become a 'white zone' - the country's lowest-risk covid-19 category - from Monday 28 June,...
Italy hands over medical supplies to Nepal
Kathmandu: The Italian government, under the European Union's Civil Protection Mechanism, had provided medical supplies to Nepal in a bid...
Italy: Rome extends Torlonia Marbles show until 2022
Rome: Rome's Torlonia Marbles exhibition has been extended until 9 January 2022, organisers has announced, just days before the blockbuster...
Italy: University of Padua elects female rector for first time in 800 years
Milan: The University of Padua has elected Daniela Mapelli as its new rector, the first woman to hold the top...
Italy: Florence Uffizi sends masterpieces to villages around Tuscany
Florence: The Uffizi Galleries in Florence, home to the world's finest collection of Renaissance art, has launched a radical project...
Alfredino: TV series revisits story that still haunts Italy after 40 years
Rome: 40 years have passed since the Vermicino tragedy but for many Italians the story remains a wound that has...
Italy to lift mandatory masks outdoors as pandemic slows
Rome: People in Italy will no longer have to wear masks outdoors from June 28, the government has said, as...
Italy’s islands push ‘Covid-free’ brand to revive tourism
Rome: In attempt to lure holidayers and revive pandemic-struck tourism, Italy is exploiting a 'Covid-Free Islands' strategy. Local authorities have...
Italy: Ancient Rome light shows by night at the Forum of Augustus
Rome: The history of ancient Rome comes to life thanks to the Viaggi nei Fori project, a multimedia display screened...
Lahore Museum launches online exhibition of artifacts from Chinese Collections
China Economic Net Lahore: The Lahore Museum has launched an online exhibition of artifacts from Chinese Collections. These artifacts were...
Italy announces humanitarian corridor to bring 500 migrants from Libya
Rome: Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese has announced the signing of a protocol to bring 500 people from Libya to...
Italy imposes quarantine on UK arrivals, opens to visitors from US, Canada, Japan, EU
Rome: Italy has introduced new restrictions for travellers arriving from the UK where cases of the highly contagious Delta covid-19...
Italy: Rome opens Futurist home of Giacomo Balla
Rome: Rome celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Italian painter and Futurist master Giacomo Balla by opening...
Italy: Rome exhibition – Angelo Titonel… To my daughter
Rome: The poignant rediscovery of a long-lost folder of works that noted Italian painter Angelo Titonel (1938-2018) gifted his 21-year-old...
Italy: Codogno covid-free for first time since February 2020
Rome: Codogno has declared itself 'covid-free' for the first time since 20 February 2020, when the small town in the...
Italy: Students with disabilities included in covid-19 education plans
Rome: The measures some schools in Italy took to ensure access to quality education for students with disabilities during Covid-19-related...
Italy: Budget airlines scoop up routes as Alitalia relaunch stalls
Milan: As the launch of a successor to Alitalia drags on, budget carriers Ryanair and Wizz are bulking up on...
Italy: What changes about life in June 2021?
Rome: From vaccine appointments to reopenings and relaxed restrictions, here's a look at what's happening in Italy in June. From...
Italy: World’s 1st transplants from COVID-positive donors performed
Rome: Italy has performed the world's first heart transplants from COVID-positive donors to virus-negative recipients in Bologna and Rome, sources...
Italy: Tourism restarting, foreigners returning says Garavaglia
Rome: - Tourism is restarting and foreigners are returning to Italy, Tourism Minister Massimo Garavaglia told ANSA. "It'll take a...
